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Low cost air pollution monitor launched in Chennai

Urban Sciences, a Mumbai-based company, on Monday launched sale of its low cost air pollution monitor in Chennai. Urban Sciences developed the air pollution monitor in association with Huma Lung Foundation and the Other Medi’s Healthy Energy Initiative.

| TNN | Jan 29, 2018, 20:03 IST

CHENNAI: Urban Sciences, a Mumbai-based company, on Monday launched sale of its low cost air pollution monitor in Chennai. Urban Sciences developed the air pollution monitor in association with Huma Lung Foundation and the Other Medi’s Healthy Energy Initiative.

Founder and CEO of the company Ronak Sutaria said the pollution monitor is built using an optical laser censor, which will record the data in digital format. The data will be transferred to an analog mode. Every five minutes the data can viewed on the monitor.

The handy monitor is calibrated to provide both PM2.5 and PM10 levels of pollution. It has a power backup for eight hours and is priced at Rs 15,000.

He said several individuals and housing societies in Mumbai had bought it.

In Chennai, it has been installed in five places– Kuruvimedu; Ennore Creek, Kodungaiyur, Eldams Road junction on Anna Salai and Nandanam – on a trial basis.

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